The Auckland Council has been told to be more transparent with Maori about its plans to sell off surplus properties; Steam vented communal hangi pits in Rotorua's Whakarewarewa Village are being repeatedly raided; A Maori GP in Northland has labelled comments on child poverty from the Social Development Minister as absurd; The Chilean Ambassador to New Zealand says a student exchange between Maori and indigenous Easter Islanders will get to the root of where early polynesians first found the kumara.